If you Sell a Product, Use Online Marketing, Part 1

Written by Judy Cullins


If you Sell a Product, Use Online Marketing, Part 1 Judy Cullins ©2003 All Rights Reserved.

When you offer your products via an email campaign to get people to visit your Web site, you reap many rewards--you create more profit, spend a lot less time promoting and marketing, and get to be known asrepparttar leader in your field.

1. Get a Low-Cost Web Site

If you don't have a Web site yet, put it atrepparttar 124937 top of your goal list. You don't need a lot of Web pages. You need a home page with benefit-driven links to your product sales letter. From your sales letter, you need a link to a secure place to order such as ClickBank.com or PayPal.com. That's only three sections of possibly 10 pages. Most Web people would charge about $600 for this service. (Be sure to write your home page and sales pages first before you contact a Web master)

2. Enhance your Online and Brand Presence

To discover your own "brand" brainstorm with friends and associates. Answer these questions:

-Why is my product or servicerepparttar 124938 right choice? -Why am Irepparttar 124939 preferred expert over my competition? -What is unique about my product or service?

Think what you can offer that's different and better than your competiton.If you said, "I'mrepparttar 124940 one who can help you make your book dream a reality--faster, cheaper, and easier." that would set you off from your competitors.

To these top benefits, add features.

-Design each part of your book to sell more copies before you write a single chapter withrepparttar 124941 essential "Seven Hot-Selling Points."

-Write each chapter fast, more focused, clear, compelling, and with less edits withrepparttar 124942 "Fast-Forward Technique."

3. Enhance product awareness.

When your targeted visitors come to you site to see your free articles and tips, they will become aware ofrepparttar 124943 products you offer, because atrepparttar 124944 end of each article will be a link straight to your products sales message and order page.

They may not buyrepparttar 124945 first time,repparttar 124946 second or even third time, but if you keep your site updated with new information every few weeks and mark your site that you have done so, your visitors will keep coming. Up to fifty percent will buy.

4. Boost your leads fast.

Email promotion is by farrepparttar 124947 easiest and most successful of all promotion. When you entice your different email groups with a testimonial or a free bonus report, they will gladly leave their email address. Then, you will be able to continue to stay in touch with them, month after month, year after year. Allow them to download by autoresponder a free article related to your product.

Creating an Effective Pay-Per-Click Campaign

Written by Angela Wu


Optimizing your website forrepparttar 'traditional' search engines can be a daunting task, and one that many people are either unable or unwilling to attempt. Fortunately, pay-per-click search engines (PPC SEs) allow us to specify exactly what key phrases we want to be listed under -- for a price.

In brief, you simply "bid" onrepparttar 124936 key phrases you want. Your bid indicates how much you're willing to pay for a click on your link - in other words, every time someone clicks your link, you pay 10 cents or whatever you bid on that particular search term. The highest bidder gets placed atrepparttar 124937 top ofrepparttar 124938 search results,repparttar 124939 second highest bidder getsrepparttar 124940 next listing, and so on. It's a quick way to get exactlyrepparttar 124941 search terms you want.

Obviously you want to maximizerepparttar 124942 effectiveness of your pay-per-click campaign since you're paying for traffic! Here are a few tips to get you started:

__1. Know Your Website's Conversion Rate.

What percentage of unique visitors to your website actually make a purchase? For instance, a website that makes 1 sale for every 100 visitors has a conversion rate of 1%.

Althoughrepparttar 124943 quality of visitors you get from a pay-per- click search engine may be higher or lower than what you normally get through other marketing means, knowing your CR will give you a "baseline" to help determine how high you're willing to bid.

For example, let's say your conversion rate is 1%. Based on this, you need 100 clicks on your link to make 1 sale. That's $10 if your bid is 10 cents/click. Figure out whether or not your profit margin is sufficiently high enough to justifyrepparttar 124944 cost. If so, are you willing to go spend even more to get your link displayed higher in repparttar 124945 search results and possibly generate more clicks and sales? Willrepparttar 124946 additional sales justifyrepparttar 124947 extra cost?

__2. Targetrepparttar 124948 RIGHT Key Phrases.

The goal is to drive traffic and sales to your website. Choosingrepparttar 124949 right key phrases is therefore critical: if you choose a search term that no one uses, you won't get any traffic. If you chooserepparttar 124950 wrong key phrase you may end up with visitors who aren't really interested in your products and services. Use Overture's Search Term Suggestion Tool to help you researchrepparttar 124951 appropriate key phrases for your business: http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/

__3. Qualifyrepparttar 124952 Visitor Before He Clicks On Your Link.

You pay every time someone clicks your link, so make sure he's a qualified visitor! Make good use of your title and description to encourage visitors who are specifically looking for a product or service like yours, while discouraging people who are "just curious".

For instance, you may sell professional website templates -- but some people are only interested in fr^e templates they can use for personal websites or small projects. These arerepparttar 124953 people you *don't* want to attract.

__4. Spend Time Writing Good Titles and Descriptions.

Create titles and descriptions specifically for each of your search terms. They should "speak" directly torepparttar 124954 type of visitor you're catering to. For instance, if you sell a variety of golf clubs, you might bid on "used golf club", "discount golf club", and "ladies golf club". Use each of these terms inrepparttar 124955 title and description to help catchrepparttar 124956 prospect's attention.

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